Improvement in combined tools



--THOMAS GARRICK.

Combined Tol..

Patented'Marc`h12. 1872.

rrHOMAs GAEEIOK, OE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TOOLS.

Specification forming part of Leiters Patent No. 124,566, dated March 12, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS (Ef-Anmelderv the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Combination Tool, of which the followingis a specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of the same, in which--A Figure l is a view of my improved tool arranged for use as a piercer of leather or wood. Fig. 2 is another view, showing the construction and arrangement of the several parts. Fig. 3 is still another view, showing the tool arranged for use as a knife. Fig. 4 is a crosssection of the piercer and reamer J, through the line a a.

Similar letters indicate like parts in. all the figures.

My invention consists of a tool or implement so constructed that it may be conveniently arranged for use as a belt-awl or piercer, a reamer77 for wood, leather, &c., and a knife.77 From the peculiar construction of my implement it is incidentallyr capable of serving with more or less efficiency as a pair of pinchers, a pair of dividers, a pair of calipers, and an eight-inch (more or less) rule.

As represented in the drawing, the wings of the handle are provided with corresponding concave toothed recesses n n, which will indifferently serve as gasburner ton gs. The said tool or implement, as shown in the drawing, is constructed with a steel knife-blade, K, and piercer and reamer G in one piece, with the two tools extending in opposite directions from a central shank, S, to which the handle H, formed in two parts, is pivoted, and when shut together forms, besides a substantial handle, a sheath for the knife or the piercer, as the case may be, as shown in Figs. l and 3. The piercer Gr is formed with a flattened point, t,.and a grooved body, d, the groove in which has a sharp cuttingedge at e, as shown clearly in Fig. 4, the opposite edge g being rounded, so that by turning the piercer to the right after it has pierced through the leather the iiathole made by the point will be enlarged and rounded, and by turning the piercer in the opposite direction, to the left, the sharp edge e will cut and ream the hole to the size required in Wood as well as leather. Two sharp points, t' i, are tixed in the free end of the two parts of the handle, and thus form a pair of dividers, which, when turned in the opposite way (Fig. 3) form inside calipers. The two iiat surfaces of the two parts of the handle at b b are serra-ted, and form the jaws of a pair of pinchers, to be operated by gripin g the handle. On the plane surface m of tie handle is cut a rule, graduated to inches, and parts of inches or scales, and being jointed, one part of the handle forms au extension of the other and a rule of double length of the handle, as shown in Fig. 1.

41 make no claim to the mere combination in one tool of the several operative devices herein mentioned; but I do claiml. The combined boring or piercing implement and cutting-blade rigidly extending in opposite directions from the same shank, and provided with an interchangeable handle pivoted to the shank of the tool, and capable of being used either for the knife or the piercing implement, substantially as and for the purposes specied.

2. The combined boring and reamin g imple ment provided with a eutting-edge, e, and a smooth rounded edge, g, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

THOMAS GARRIUK.

Vitnesscs:

IsAAo A. BROWNELI., ORvAv T. KNIGHT. 

